A Buff Gay Dude posted:

someone should make clip on extenders for the bottom of the Airpods that hold them together and let you physically tether them to your iPhone.

Dislike button posted:

the new iphone comes out in 9 months is anyone else excited

Dislike button posted:

the new iphone comes out in 9 months is anyone else excited

MALE SHOEGAZE posted:

every time i use my macbook for more than 30 minutes, i end up with this:



it's so annoying i wish it would just prune empty desktops

MALE SHOEGAZE posted:

oh man i just turned that poo poo off. awesome

what other things am i doing wrong? don't say continuing to breathe

MALE SHOEGAZE posted:

oh man i just turned that poo poo off. awesome

what other things am i doing wrong? don't say continuing to breathe

Phoenixan posted:

If you hover your mouse over the top left corner of an empty desktop, you can close it

if you close a desktop with windows in it it'll move all of its windows to your last used desktop

agreeing that it should just automatically close empty ones if there's >1 maybe or at least give the option but hth

Shaggar posted:

can you not just click x on the two empty desktops for them 2 go away? how would it know that you are done w/ the desktop and its ok to close it? the people who are autistic enough to want multiple desktops are gonna want to manage every aspect of them anyway so having to manually create or remove them makes sense.

Endless Mike posted:

i've never had a desktop create itself automatically. you're holding it wrong.

ComradeCosmobot posted:

yeah proper surveying/mapmaking is not cheap, and as simple and comprehensive as osm seems, making it truly navigable (e.g. turn restrictions, signage, speeds, etc) is a non-trivial project

there's a reason almost every mapping product comes from a commercial company (and why many national mapping agencies don't release their maps in the public domain)

MALE SHOEGAZE posted:

the issue is that they create themselves automatically when you do...things. I don't really understand why they appear automatically and I think the fact that they automatically create themselves is the core issue here. once again shaggar is right

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It has to do with the 'separate space' feature for external displays Apple introduced in OS X 10.10 Yosemite: If the setting "Displays have separate Spaces" in System Preferences -> Mission Control is activated (see https://support.apple.com/kb/PH18809?locale=en_US), every time you hook up a display a new space will be created for that display. After you pull the plug, OS X will not delete that created space, hence accumulating lots of spaces over time.

Dixie Cretin Seaman posted:

apparently this is an issue with external monitors and a dumb OS X setting/behavior

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MALE SHOEGAZE posted:

oh man i just turned that poo poo off. awesome

what other things am i doing wrong? don't say continuing to breathe

zen death robot posted:

there's more to life than owning poo poo

zen death robot posted:

there's more to life than scoring a victory over poo poo

Dixie Cretin Seaman posted:

apparently this is an issue with external monitors and a dumb OS X setting/behavior

Dixie Cretin Seaman posted:

apparently this is an issue with external monitors and a dumb OS X setting/behavior

qirex posted:

apple has been granted a patent for “liquid expulsion from an orifice” (patent number 20170006383)

qirex posted:

apple has been granted a patent for “liquid expulsion from an orifice” (patent number 20170006383)

Dixie Cretin Seaman posted:

i cite myself as prior art

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An early prototype of the original iPhone has been shared online by Sonny Dickson, with a collection of images and a video that provide a glimpse into one version of the iPhone that Apple created and tested before ending up with the first iteration of the device. The prototype includes some similar features to the first generation iPhone, like an aluminium chassis, multi-touch compatible screen, 2G connectivity and Wi-Fi, but its entire user interface is taken directly from the click wheel system of Apple's original iPod line.

Called "Acorn OS," the prototype software includes an on-screen click wheel on the bottom half of the screen and a menu system on the top half, and the two are bisected by a bar with rewind, menu, play/pause, and fast-forward buttons. On the menu are options such as “Favorites”, “SMS”, “Music”, “Settings” and “Recents," and it's navigated by circling around the click wheel to go up and down, with a center press confirming an action, just like on the iPod.



"Instead of the modern touch-driven interface we now call iOS, it featured an operating system dubbed “Acorn OS” (this was an internal code name, and it unclear if it would have kept that name if it had been released), which is derived from the acorn shown on boot.

Not much else is known about the device, apart from the fact that it differs heavily from the iPhone we know today, and that very few units running “Acorn OS” exist, with most of them likely being destroyed by Apple, a company in which there is a specific job role in relation to the destruction of prototypes."

Dickson references Apple's patent for a "multi-functional hand-held device," filed and published in 2006, as proof that such a prototype did exist at one point and could potentially have been an alternate version of the iPhone. In one of the patent's drawings, a click wheel can be seen as a possible input method for the proposed device. The patent's abstract describes a product with "at most only a few physical buttons, keys, or switches so that its display size can be substantially increased."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P0LlVtlXEEA


It's well known that to get to the current version of iOS we have today, Steve Jobs originally placed "iPod Father" Tony Fadell and Macintosh executive Scott Forstall in a head-to-head competition to come up with the best mobile operating system possible. The two teams represented a clashing idea that Jobs had for the iPhone: enlarge the iPod's OS or come up with a compact version of the Mac's OS. Forstall's team won, and it appears that today's shared prototype is a bygone leftover of the losing side's work.

Check out more images of the iPod-inspired iPhone on Sonny Dickson's website.

KOTEX GOD OF BLOOD posted:

hey remember this



well